Recover Hard Drive Data

Restore Data from Hard Disk

Remo Recover is extremely useful software that can recover hard drive data from crashed, accidentally formatted, re-formatted, re-partitioned hard drives. This hard drive recovery software even helps you to restore data from hard drive having bad sectors by providing you an option to create an exact replica of your HDD as a disk image file by using Disk Image option. You can later recover drive data from such disk image files.

Features

Remo Recover (Windows)

• Recover data from crashed hard drives or non-booting hard drives
• Recover hard disk data from deleted or inaccessible partitions
• You can sort recovered data on the basis of name, date, size and file type
• Easily locate a particular file on the basis of creation date, extension, size and file name using “Find” option
• The Disk Image feature lets you recover data from HDD having bad sectors
• Recover HDD data from FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5, ExtFAT formatted partitions / drives

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Remo Recover (Mac)

• Recover data from Mac OS X volumes after the hard drive has crashed
• Easily recover disk data from volumes that do not mount or fail to mount
• Powerful scanning engine to retrieve lost data from volumes that fail to mount
• Option to view recovered data in a Mac finder styled interface
• Universal Binary application, which supports both Intel and PowerPC Mac platforms
• Restore data from HDD, having HFS+, HFSX formatted partitions / volumes

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Common causes of hard drive failure

Corrupt MBR: Master Boot Record (MBR), which helps in booting Windows operating system. Any corruption to MBR may result in a hard drive crash.

Partition corruption: Hard drive may fail due to partition information corruption, while trying to make dual /multi OS boot installation.

Using third party utility / programs: Partition resizing or trying to divide the existing partition using third party tools may result in data loss.

Virus: Viruses can affect important system files because of which, the hard drive fails to boot.

Bad sectors: Ageing hard drive is susceptible to bad sectors, which will result in data loss

Improper shutdown: Abrupt system shut down or power surge may result in corruption of system files leading to hard drive crash

How to Recover Hard Drive Data?

Step 1: Disconnect the hard drive from your computer and connect it as a secondary drive to another healthy computer

Step 2: Download and install the Remo Recover (Windows) on the computer to which the affected hard              drive is connected

Step 3: Launch HDD Recovery application by double-clicking the shortcut on the desktop or using the Start Menu

Step 4: Select the "Recover Partitions / Drives" option from the main screen, as shown in Figure 1.

Step 5: Select "Partition Recovery" option to recover deleted / lost partition as shown in Figure 2

Step 6:  After selecting either of the option, select the physical drive from which lost partition needs to be recovered, and click on "Next" to as shown in Figure 3

Step 7: Once you click on "Next", the scanning process starts as shown in Figure 4

Step 8: Once the scanning process is completed, a list of found partitions / drives will be displayed as shown in Figure 5

Step 9: Select the appropriate drives / partitions from the ones that are displayed in the drive list and click "Next"

Step 10: To perform an additional search for files based on their unique signatures you can select the appropriate file types. You can also skip this process to continue with normal deep scanning as shown in Figure 6

Step 11: You have the option to view the recovered data using File Type View / Data View option as shown in Figure 7

Step 12: You can use the Preview option to view the recovered data as shown in Figure 8

Step 13: The "Save Recovery Session" option allows you save the scanned information. You can use this to resume the saving process at anytime without re-scanning the hard drive as shown in Figure 9

Step 14: If you are satisfied with the recovery results, you can purchase the software.

Step 15: Later, you can activate the software and use the option "Open Recovery Session", to load previously saved scanned information and continue with the saving process as shown in Figure 10

To recover Mac hard drive, make use of Remo Recover (Mac)

Note: Avoid installing Remo Recover or saving any recovered files on the hard drive or partition from which data needs to be recovered. As any such process may overwrite the deleted / lost data leading to permanent data loss

Supported Hard Drive / Other Storage Device Manufacturers: Apple,Buffalo, Fujitsu, Hitachi , Imation, Iomega, Iosafe, Kingston, LaCie, Maxtor, Quantum, Samsung, SanDisk, Seagate, Sony, Toshiba, Transcend, Western Digital.

Supported Devices: Hard Disk Drives (HDD) - IDE / SATA / SCSI / ATA / PATA, External / USB / Removable drives

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7 (Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Professional, Enterprise), Windows Vista (Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business, Enterprise), Windows XP (Starter, Home, Professional, Media Center), Windows Server 2008 (Standard, Enterprise), Windows Server 2003 (Standard, Enterprise)